Hume Highway
If you plan to drive from Sydney to Melbourne, you can choose the two major road routes to follow.
You can follow the Princes Highway (Highway 1) throughout the coastal route, or take a shorter route, the inland Hume Highway.
Sydney, Melbourne Princes Highway is 1037 km, and the Hume Highway 873 Please note that the road to change, ignore, and the construction of express roads of these two highways have been able to affect the listed distances, but these are expected to have remained relatively – and in relative terms – the exact.
Named explorerThe Hume Highway is named after an Australian explorer Hamilton Hume (1797-1873) and DJ from Sydney via Melbourne in 1824 with fellow explorer William Hovell.
If you enjoy dawdling along the scenic route from Sydney to Melbourne, Princes Highway route. For those who just want to get there quickly – but there is still time to perhaps explore the sights along the way – Hume Highway is a choice.
From downtown Sydney, the St George to the south and turn right into Railway Square, Broadway leading to the west of Parramatta Rd. Watch for signs of rotation or the Hume Highway Liverpool. Turn left onto Parramatta Rd reported at the intersection into Liverpool Street, which is the beginning of Hume Highway.
Hume Highway 31, so you can follow the numbered route. But when you come to Liverpool, Hume Highway will be part of Sydney's M7 Metroads Network.
Follow the M7 route until you reach the Crossroads, a major intersection just to the left corner of Liverpool and signs saying, Campbelltown and Canberra. This road leads into the South-West Freeway (M5), a Hume Highway push your way out of greater Sydney metropolitan area. You'll notice that the expressway is now marked 31, which means that part of Hume.
Expressway passes many towns along the old Hume Highway route, so if you do not want to enter any town along the way, you have to leave the motorway and once again it is the other side of town.
South HighlandsIf you want to visit the Southern Highlands about an hour away from Sydney, you have to leave the highway at Mittagong and travel further inland, perhaps Bowral where Don Bradman museum is located and where the Tulip Time Festival held every year, and other cities in the highlands.
There will be signs aplenty to show the way.
When Moss Vale Southern Highlands, Hume Highway can only be parts of the freeway.
Past City Goulburn, which can override (of course, through the bypass), do not turn left onto Federal Highway, which leads to Canberra.
Gundagai and the famous dogRoughly west-southwest of Goulburn can be found – between Coolac and Tarcutta – Gundagai on the outskirts of the city, where you can find dog Tuckerbox and folk song fame. Sometimes when you find Holbrook Tarcutta the submarine on dry land.
Continue following the Hume Highway to the border towns and Albury (New South Wales) and Wodonga (Victoria). These two cities are part of exhaustion, Hume Freeway, which should get you to Melbourne.
Ned Kelly's last standBetween Wangaratta and Glenrowan Benalla find, known as the place where the bush ranger Ned Kelly was captured. Ned Kelly was later tried and eventually sentenced to prison, was hanged in Melbourne.
Hume Freeway should take you directly to Melbourne at the door.
More Source:
Hume Highway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaOld Hume Highway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sydney to Melbourne - Going on the Inland Hume Highway
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